This book discusses teacher evaluation and how it can provide the foundations for professional development. The editors and contributors illustrate how teachers with varying levels of expertise, experience and learning needs can benefit from differentiated evaluation and professional development designed to help them reach their full potential. The book examines various aspects of differentiation including levels of experience from pre-service to veteran, practices of school principals as they supervise and evaluate staff, and wider education policies that can support or hinder differentiation. Providing fascinating insights into how teacher evaluation policies can support practice in a variety of contexts, this timely collection will be of interest and value to students and scholars of teacher evaluation and professional development.
Examines how differentiated teacher evaluation can provide important foundations for professional development Analyses various aspects of differentiation that can support or hinder teacher development Offers important insights into how teacher evaluation can support practice in a range of contexts
Mary Lynne Derrington
Differentiated evaluation Professional learning CPD Teacher Growth Education Policy Teacher evaluation
“This book represents an amalgam of examinations of teacher evaluation from the contexts of North America and Europe. … this book may be valuable to those who are trying to reconceptualize evaluation policies by learning from other countries.” (Moldir Ablayeva, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)
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